It happened at Van Nuys Airport late Sunday or early Monday, police at Los Angeles World Airports said.

"What happened was last night or this morning someone cut through the perimeter fence, entered the facility and graffitied three private aircraft in the southeast corner of the airfield," Officer Rob Pedregon told us yesterday afternoon.

Three jets, all in one hangar, were tagged, Pedregon said. The victims included two Gulfstreams and one Boeing, he said.

Because the Federal Aviation Administration regulates traffic at the airport, the FBI has joined the airport police to investigate the fly-by-night artwork, Pedregon said.

Damage to two of the planes was estimated at $3,500 each, he said. The other was still being assessed.

We asked Pedregon if detectives would be looking at security video. "They're looking at everything," he said.

Van Nuys Airport, often used as a location for television's Entourage, is the hub for Hollywood elites using private transportation. Santa Monica Airport is another hot spot for personal aircraft, but it might be too small for some of the big-baller jets parked at Van Nuys.

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Dennis Romero is an L.A. Weekly staff writer. He formerly worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Los Angeles Times, where he participated in Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the L.A. riots. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone online, the Guardian and, as a young stringer, the New York Times.